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Sharon Speedway

HARTFORD

Sharon Speedway had a Steel Valley Thunder race night Saturday on Armed Forces Night.

Posting victories were Jim Rasey-Governor Insurance Agency Big-Block Modifieds, Joe Martin-Barris Supply FASTRAK Late Models, Robbie Blair-Ainsley 500 Heating & Cooling E-Mods, Paul Davis-Gibson Insurance Agency Stock Cars and Bill Fuchs-Presidential Lawn Care Mini Stocks.

One hundred eleven race cars were in the pit area for the five-division program.

Toms rallies at Colonial for 13th career win

FORT WORTH, Texas

David Toms threw up both arms up in the air and a smile took over his face when he finally regained the lead at Colonial. This time, he didn’t let it get away.

A day after blowing a seven-stroke advantage to go into the final round trailing Charlie Wi by one, Toms made an eagle with a wedge shot from 83 yards at par-5 11th hole Sunday to take the lead for good and went on to his first PGA Tour victory since January 2006.

The 44-year-old Toms closed with a 3-under 67 at Hogan’s Alley to get to 15 under. His long-elusive 13th career victory came a week after a playoff loss to K.J. Choi at The Players Championship, his sixth runner-up finish since last winning.

Pettersen takes Sybase Match Play title

GLADSTONE, N.J.

Suzann Pettersen beat Cristie Kerr 1-up to win the Sybase Match Play Championship on Sunday, ending a 20-month victory drought.

Leading 1-up and with Kerr facing a 10-foot birdie attempt, Pettersen curled in a left to-right 15-footer for birdie to seal the victory at Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

The 30-year-old Norwegian star immediately thrust both hands skyward in celebration, took a few steps and staggered to her knees in exhaustion after playing four rounds over the last two days. She quickly got up and gave a thumbs up and exhaled.

Pettersen never trailed in the match in winning for the first time since the Canadian Women’s Open in September 2009, and for the seventh time in her LPGA Tour career.

Anita aids Ajax, 2-1

WASHINGTON

Vurnon Anita’s goal in the 87th minute lifted AFC Ajax to a 2-1 win over DC United in an international soccer exhibition at RFK Stadium on Sunday.

Anita dribbled deep into United territory and then with his left foot smacked home the go-ahead goal past goalkeeper Steve Cronin and inside the left post.

In the 10th minute, Miralem Sulejmani scored past United’s starting goalkeeper Bill Hamid off a feed from Nicolas Lodeiro.

United’s play improved after falling behind and they knotted the score at one in the 58th minute on a goal by substitute Blake Brettschneider off a centering pass from Joseph Ngwenya.

Armstrong’s ’99 samples in question

New revelations from Lance Armstrong’s former teammates on “60 Minutes,” combined with recent requests by federal authorities for evidence in France, have fed a sense of growing trouble for the world’s most famous cyclist.

One of Armstrong’s former teammates, Tyler Hamilton, told “60 Minutes” he saw the seven-time Tour de France winner use EPO during his first Tour victory in 1999.

Meanwhile, The Associated Press reported that last month, federal investigators looking into the Armstrong case recently asked French authorities to turn over evidence, including Armstrong’s urine samples from the same year.

World gymnastics staying in Tokyo

SAN JOSE, Calif.

The world gymnastics championships will be held in Tokyo as originally planned.

The International Gymnastics Federation decided Sunday there was no reason to move worlds, the main qualifier for the 2012 Olympics in London, despite earlier concerns about high radiation levels following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Vindicator staff/wire reports